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NUR 304 EXAM 1 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
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NUR 304 EXAM 1 2024/2025 WITH 100%ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
The 5 Vital Signs - Precise Answer ✔✔1) Temperature
2) Pulse
3) Respiratory rate
4) Blood pressure
5) Oxygen saturation
When should a nurse look at VS? - Precise Answer ✔✔- initial visit
-whenever the patient condition changes
Is pain subjective or objective? - Precise Answer ✔✔Subjective
Nursing Intervention - Precise Answer ✔✔nurses are responsible for the patient
Average temperature range - Precise Answer ✔✔98.8-100.4
Fever - Precise Answer ✔✔Oral: >100 F
Rectal: >100.4 F
Hypothermia - Precise Answer ✔✔<95F
Hyperthermia - Precise Answer ✔✔>104 F
What produces heat? - Precise Answer ✔✔-neural and vascular control
- basal metabolic rate
, - nonshivering thermogenesis
What looses heat? - Precise Answer ✔✔-Radiation
-Convenction
-evaporation
-conduction
What is radiation? - Precise Answer ✔✔loss of heat through skin
What controls the BMR? - Precise Answer ✔✔thyroid
What is convection? - Precise Answer ✔✔transfer of heat through air or water
What is conduction? - Precise Answer ✔✔it is when heat transfers from warm to cool surface by using
an object
How babies are affected to body temperature - Precise Answer ✔✔lose heat through head
How the elderly are affected by body temp? - Precise Answer ✔✔-they can't generate their own
temperature
- the hypothalamus does not work properly
Patho Fever - Precise Answer ✔✔the temp increases to help defend the host when being attacked
Phases of Patho-Fever - Precise Answer ✔✔-inital> rising temp
-sec. > max point
-third> vasodialation occurs
Febrile - Precise Answer ✔✔fever
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